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Want to know more about how to teach times tables and help primary aged students learn their facts?
I’ve made a playlist addressing this exact problem. Enjoy!
youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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James Dixon
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James Dixon
@MrDixonMath
Primary Educator - Middle Leader
Victoria, Australia Katılım Ekim 2017
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In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job.
In 2022, that dropped to 12%.
We've got a serious problem brewing in education...
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We discount just how much the students who ARE behaving and just want to learn HATE disruptive, disrespectful students
Don't they deserve an education, too?
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Why do teachers quit?
Maybe it’s the thrown chairs, the students screaming “fucking bitch,” biting them, disrespecting them, and refusing to follow the simplest commands like “please sit down”
I dunno. Maybe that has something to do with it
fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…
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Hear me out:
If a student calls their teacher a "f---ing b-tch," they don't need a hug, a bag of Takis, and some time to cool down in a bean bag chair
They need to get marched out of the school
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Firstly, this doc was awesome. @louistheroux
As a primary school teacher I have seen first hand the manosphere being an issue with our children. The content teens and pre-teens are exposed to is alarming,
Netflix UK & Ireland@NetflixUK
The internet’s most controversial men. Louis Theroux goes inside the Manosphere. LOUIS THEROUX: INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE is now playing.
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Two multiplication strategies I’ve just uploaded to YouTube:
Doubling & Halving
youtu.be/EuQZkQ8n2kU?si…
5s Strategy
youtu.be/TFJuEY-HCPY?si…
Both are simple and powerful for students. #maths #teaching
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@adam_voigt Should be scrapped altogether. Nothing more than a school ranking system imo. ACARA needs to come up with something that doesn’t function like it was made in the 90s. Today was a disappointment.
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A wonderful, serendipitous opportunity for parents & teachers to affirm for kids that NAPLAN is crazy low-stakes for them, that it’s not a race or an entrance exam. Go for a walk, chill, get a good night’s sleep and just sit the test when the computers are up and working again.
ACARA@ACARAeduau
NAPLAN testing has now resumed. We apologise for the disruption to students and schools, and thank them for their patience. We continue to monitor the platform to ensure students are able to complete their assessments without further issues.
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@AEUfederal Yep. NAPLAN is purely a ranking system. Provides minimal for schools and the platform operates like it’s straight out of the 90s. Leave it to the schools or build something better.
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Today’s failure of the online NAPLAN testing platform highlights that the system is riddled with problems and should be scrapped in favour of sample-based testing and teacher-led assessments. Read more: bit.ly/4ljGI70
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@BradRowswell Brad Rowswell MP as a Numeracy Learning Specialist I’m deeply disappointed. I work at a school with a low SES and the upheaval it caused us wasn’t great.
Schools deserve better when millions of dollars are shelled out to ACARA and VCAA. Get the portal right, they had one job.
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STATEMENT: NAPLAN SYSTEM FAILURE
Both kids and teachers have enough going on and deserve better than a NAPLAN system that has failed.
Parents deserve better than a Federal Education Minister who’s in hiding and not providing leadership when it matters.
Legitimate question must be asked about the reliability of this NAPLAN data set, given the stuff up.
On the back of cyber breaches in Victorian Government schools, parents and students deserve a full and frank explanation; including what went wrong and why.
#springst
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@RogersHistory We have, and most of the time they do pay purely because they are embarrassed.
We had one child break a window once and the parent paid. Hard to enforce but the reasonable parents come to the table. It’s really a case by case thing.
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Is vandalism a problem in your school? How does your school respond?
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@SciInTheMaking Love this. This is how I start with concrete and abstract together.
youtu.be/dvfTRhzMask?si…
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@MrDixonMath As a high school teacher, I share your annoyance. "Just give them a calculator." Drives me nuts.
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How I teach students to learn their 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s facts for multiplication.
youtu.be/dvfTRhzMask?si…
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@SciInTheMaking If anyone is interested I have a playlist for primary / elementary kids.
youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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@jliemandt As a Numeracy Learning Specialist I became annoyed that we had students leaving our school not knowing their facts up to 12x12. I developed a strategy sequence we're now using across our school. Knowing your facts is important imo.
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Most schools stopped teaching kids to memorize multiplication tables.
They called it “old fashioned.” 🙄
It’s actually one of the most damaging things they did to math education. Without automatic recall, kids hit a wall in fractions, algebra, and everything after.
At Alpha School, we’re fixing it - and kids are loving it. 🚀👾
Sarah Cone@sarah_cone
My daughter used to hate FastMath and would do it last, and often not at all. Today, with the changes, she chatted excitedly on the way to school about how she was going to do FastMath first and something about blasts and ghosties. Thank you all for continuing to improve my child’s education—it’s working!
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@karenvaites As a Numeracy Learning Specialist I became annoyed that we had students leaving our school not knowing their facts up to 12x12. I developed a strategy sequence we're now using across our school. Knowing your facts is important imo.
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To make this a norm:
- Give teachers curriculum that expects fact fluency in early grades, and includes ample volumes of practice
- Introduce screeners to make sure we aren’t passing kids into upper grades without knowing times tables
- Cut the fluff from elementary math curricula
Garry Tan@garrytan
Teach children their multiplication tables please
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@karenvaites @BrunoReddyMaths you'll see in Stage 4 'Gone Green'.
I'm a big advocate for TTRS for practice.
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